"Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency) Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Labour's Afzal Khan, who was elected at the 2017 general election. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 divided the existing seat of South East Lancashire into eight single-member constituencies, an Act which significantly increased representation across Britain. Manchester Gorton has returned MPs from the Labour Party since 1935, with majorities exceeding 17% since 1979. The 2015 general election result made the seat the eighth-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. From 1983-2017, Sir Gerald Kaufman, Father of"
"Labour Party whip, so his two rebellions carried greater weight. Kaufman was a critic of the state of Israel; he came under criticism himself during the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal. Kaufman was born in Leeds, the youngest of seven children of Louis and Jane Kaufman. His parents were both Polish Jews who moved to England before the First World War. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, and graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford (Queen's College). During his time there, he was Secretary of the University Labour Club, where he prevented Rupert"
"that constituency to die in office). At the following by-election the Labour candidate, Leslie Haden Guest, regained the seat for his party. Albert Goodman Albert William Goodman (1880 – 22 August 1937) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. At the 1929 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Bow and Bromley in east London, losing to George Lansbury by a wide margin. As Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election, he won the Islington North from the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Young, who had gained it from the Conservatives in 1929."
"Jerusalem as its capital, Kaufman wrote in the following in his op-ed (dated 11 September 2011) in ""The Guardian"": Along with another Labour MP Martin Linton, he accused the Conservative Party of being ""too close"" to Israel. In 2010, Kaufman said that those parts of the British Conservative party not controlled by Lord Ashcroft are controlled by ""right-wing Jewish millionaires"". On 30 March 2011 he was caught by a microphone in the Chamber of the House of Commons saying ""here we are, the Jews again"", when fellow Jewish Labour MP Louise Ellman rose to speak, for which he apologised. At"
"the Parliamentary constituency that was held by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson between 1974 and 1992. Between 1992 and 2015 its Member of Parliament was Andrew Robathan. There was a railway station on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line, but it closed in 1968. The ""Blaby Special"" heirloom tomato variety originates from the Shoults' Tomato Farm, which was located in Blaby from circa 1908 until 1948: the variety was thought to be extinct but was revived from a seed bank in 2005. Blaby is home to rugby union side, Leicester Lions, who play at the 2,000 capacity Westleigh Park."
"jobs are in manufacturing. The 2015 result gave the seat the 10th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. This constituency contains the southern half of the Furness peninsula, South Cumbria in the north-west of England. The newly shaped seat is formed from the following electoral wards, were first contested in 2010: 1983-2010: The entire district of Barrow-in-Furness and the following wards from the District of South Lakeland: Low Furness, Pennington, Ulverston Central, Ulverston East, Ulverston North, Ulverston South and Ulverston West The current MP is John Woodcock, an independent since 18 June 2018, formally member of the"
"which was duly approved by Parliament. It is largely based on the former Plymouth, Sutton, with the addition of smaller parts of the former Plymouth Devonport constituency. This constituency was represented since its creation in 2010 by a Conservative, Oliver Colvile. In 2015, against opinion poll predictions of losing, Colvile held the seat over the Labour candidate Luke Pollard, with a reduced majority. The 2015 result gave the seat the 7th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. In 2017, Pollard defeated Colvile to gain the seat with a majority of 6,807; originally, the"
"City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency) City of Durham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Roberta Blackman-Woods of the Labour Party. The constituency contains a large minority of students, researchers and academics at the early 19th century founded University of Durham, that has a claim towards being the third oldest in England and has elected Labour MPs since 1935, although there have been strong Liberal-SDP Alliance and Liberal Democrat challenges to Labour since the 1980s. The City of Durham was first given the right to return Members to Parliament by"
"a Conservative, a Liberal (eventual winner Simon Hughes) and John O'Grady, who had declared himself the Real Bermondsey Labour candidate. Critically, Labour held on in a subsequent by-election in Darlington, and Foot remained leader for the 1983 general election. The 1983 Labour manifesto, strongly socialist in tone, advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher personal taxation and a return to a more interventionist industrial policy. The manifesto also pledged that a Labour government would abolish the House of Lords, nationalise banks and immediately withdraw from the then-European Economic Community. Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s; a prominent"
"the Labour and Conservative parties in the years since the Second World War. Labour have held the seat since 1992 with their candidate Jenny Chapman winning the seat in 2010 with a 3,388 majority down from 10,404 in the previous election. In 2015, her majority over the Conservatives fell to 3,158. 1918-1983: The County Borough of Darlington. 1983-2010: The Borough of Darlington wards of Bank Top, Central, Cockerton East, Cockerton West, College, Eastbourne North, Eastbourne South, Harrowgate Hill, Haughton East, Haughton West, Hummersknott, Lascelles, Lingfield, Mowden, Northgate North, Northgate South, North Road, Park East, Park West, and Pierremont. 2010-present: The"
"Gorton South. Father of the House and Britain's longest serving backbench MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, represented the Gorton area (Ardwick followed by Manchester Gorton) for 47 years until his death in February 2017. Manchester Gorton's current MP is Afzal Khan. Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1854 and is an amateur orchestra. The folk comedy group Gorton Tank were based in Gorton and were popular in the Manchester area. The painter Michael Gutteridge was born in Gorton. The Gorton Morris Men were responsible for reviving the rushcart ceremony in Gorton. Manchester City F.C. were founded as St. Mark's (West Gorton)"
"of its population. The sole forerunner to the constituency was the abolished constituency of Whitehaven. Copeland had consistently returned Labour Party candidates since its creation in 1983 until the by-election of 23 February 2017, when Trudy Harrison gained it for the Conservatives. Prior to that (save for the total landslide in 1931 when part of the parliamentary Labour Party remained in government with the Conservative Party in 1931, under Ramsay MacDonald), the last Conservative elected for the area was in 1924. The 2015 result gave the seat the 31st most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority."
"London in 1978 and a Liveryman of the Wheelwrights Company in 1979. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. At the 1979 elections to the European Parliament, Kellett-Bowman was chosen as the Conservative Party candidate for the Lancashire East constituency, which stretched from Blackburn to Nelson, including Clitheroe and Heywood. He won the seat with a majority of over 14,000, although only three out of the eight Parliamentary constituencies making up the seat were Conservative. At the same election, his wife was elected in the neighbouring constituency of Cumbria and Lancashire North. Kellett-Bowman specialised in budget and"
"Minister of the United Kingdom in 1940, Churchill was made a Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Oldham, on 2 April 1941. Since 1997, the boundaries of two parliamentary constituencies have divided Oldham; Oldham East and Saddleworth, and Oldham West and Royton (which includes the town centre), represented by Labour Members of Parliament Phil Woolas and Michael Meacher respectively. Following the ""Oldham Riots"" in 2001, Oldham West and Royton gained notoriety at the 2001 general election when the leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin, stood as a candidate (despite it being a safe seat for Labour)."
"Darlington (UK Parliament constituency) Darlington is the parliamentary constituency for the market town of the same name in County Durham in the North East of England. It is currently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Jenny Chapman of the Labour Party, who first became its MP in 2010, and is regarded as a semi-marginal Labour seat. The constituency was created for the 1868 election and covers the market town of Darlington in County Durham. The seat has been held by all three major parties in its long existence, but has been a marginal constituency between"
"Albert Goodman Albert William Goodman (1880 – 22 August 1937) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. At the 1929 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Bow and Bromley in east London, losing to George Lansbury by a wide margin. As Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election, he won the Islington North from the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Young, who had gained it from the Conservatives in 1929. Goodman held his seat at the 1935 election, and died in 1937, aged 57 (the first of three 20th century MPs from"
"It stretches from Holborn in the south to the Greater London boundary in the north. It includes parts of central London, the inner city, suburban development and a semi-rural fringe. The constituency returns one assembly member and is one of fourteen territorial constituencies in London. Represented from its creation in 2000 until the election in 2012 by Brian Coleman, a Conservative from Barnet, former Labour MP Andrew Dismore won it from him with a swing of nearly 12%. Elections are held every four years, with the first taking place in 2000. The constituency includes all of the following Westminster seats"
"proportion of any constituency in England and Wales, according to ONS 2011 Census figures. There is also a large black population. Unemployment is significantly higher than the national average of 3.5%. In the constituency 9.9% of people are unemployed. At the 2014 and 2010 council elections, Labour won all of the seats. One of the safest Labour seats in the country, Stephen Timms has been MP since 1994. 1997–2010: The London Borough of Newham wards of Castle, Central, Greatfield, Kensington, Little Ilford, Manor Park, Monega, St Stephen's, South, and Wall End. 2010–present: The London Borough of Newham wards of Beckton,"
"city of Leicester, it was held for many years by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. Lawson was succeeded in 1992 by Andrew Robathan, who held the seat until its abolition. Following its review of parliamentary representation in Leicestershire, the Boundary Commission for England renamed the Blaby constituency as South Leicestershire, with minor alterations to its boundaries, in time for the 2010 election. 1974–1983: The Rural Districts of Blaby and Lutterworth. 1983–1997: The District of Blaby, and the District of Harborough wards of Broughton, Dunton, Gilmorton, Kilworth, Lutterworth Linden, Lutterworth St Mary's, Lutterworth Sherrier, Lutterworth Wycliffe, Peatling, and"
"to gain a seat, the Conservatives making a clean sweep of the ward. However he was elected to as a councillor for Shepherds Bush Green ward at the May 2010 local elections. Coleman is married to Sally Powell, a Labour councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham, as well as a NEC member; they have one son, Jack Coleman. Iain is also an Arsenal supporter. Iain Coleman Iain Coleman (born 18 January 1958) was the Labour Member of Parliament for Hammersmith and Fulham in London from 1997 to 2005. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hammersmith and"
"Cowdenbeath seat, but was defeated by the Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown by over 23,000 votes. Five years later in Dunfermline and West Fife, however, he took 50.3% of the overall vote with a 39.6% swing from his Labour predecessor Thomas Docherty. It was his third attempt to take the seat, having been defeated in 2005 and in a by-election in 2006. He retained his seat at the 2017 general election with a 35.5% share of the vote but a much reduced majority of only 844. He is married with two children, and supports Hibernian FC. Douglas Chapman (Scottish politician)"
"Darlington became a unitary authority area with the formation of Darlington Borough Council, which separated it from the non-metropolitan county of Durham for administrative purposes only, as the town is still within County Durham for ceremonial purposes. Currently a Labour seat, the current MP is Labour's Jenny Chapman. Former members of parliament for the town include Alan Milburn, the former Secretary of State for Health under the Tony Blair Labour Government and Michael Fallon, who was Secretary of State for Defence under the David Cameron Coalition Government and Theresa May's Conservative government. Darlington is located in south Durham close to"
"Helen Goodman Helen Catherine Goodman (born 2 January 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland since 2005. She was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions until 2010 with responsibility for child poverty and childcare. Goodman's mother was a Danish immigrant and her father was an architect. She grew up in Derbyshire and was educated at her village school and Lady Manners School, Bakewell, Derbyshire, which at the time was a Grammar School. She studied PPE at Somerville College, Oxford. Upon graduating from the"
"2016, Galloway also endorsed Corbyn's campaign in Labour Party leadership election. He said: ""If Corbyn wins a big victory – and I think he will – then that should be, and it's important that it is, the final burial of Blair and Blairism."" The Respect Party ""voluntarily deregistered"" from the Electoral Commission on 18 August 2016. It was announced on 21 March 2017 that Galloway was standing as an independent candidate at the forthcoming Manchester Gorton by-election set for 4 May, following the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman in February. Gorton had been one of Labour's safest seats at the"
"the Muslim Council of Britain to call for an independent inquiry into alleged Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. Blackman is married to former Conservative Party councillor Nicola Blackman, and the couple live in Wembley. He employs his wife as a part-time Office Manager on a salary up to £39,999. Bob Blackman Robert John Blackman (born 26 April 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has been a joint-secretary and an executive member of the 1922 Committee since May 2012 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow East since the 2010 general election. He"
"the Labour candidate, Navin Shah by a 1,649 votes. In the 2010 general election, Blackman gained the Harrow East constituency from Labour's Tony McNulty. He was subsequently re-elected in 2015 and 2017. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee. and was elected Secretary of the 1922 Committee in 2015. In Parliament, Blackman currently serves on the Procedure Committee, the Backbench Business Committee and the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. Blackman supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum. He subsequently joined the European Research Group - the primary Eurosceptic lobbying group within Parliament,"
"he stepped down at the 1950 general election. The constituency has been held by Labour ever since, save for a brief period in the 1980s when incumbent Labour MP Michael O'Halloran joined the breakaway Social Democratic Party. 1937 Islington North by-election The Islington North by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 October 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London. The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Albert Goodman, died on 22 August 1937, aged 57. He had held the seat since the 1931 general"
"Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. In 2015 three other parties candidates kept their deposits by winning more than 5% of the vote. In order of public preference these candidates stood for the Conservatives, Green Party and UKIP respectively. Turnout at general elections has ranged between 86.48% in 1950 to 60.6% in 2001. 1918-1983: The Borough of Cambridge. 1983-2010: The City of Cambridge wards of Abbey, Arbury, Castle, Cherry Hinton, Coleridge, East Chesterton, King's Hedges, Market, Newnham, Petersfield, Romsey, and West Chesterton. 2010-present: The City of Cambridge wards of Abbey, Arbury, Castle, Cherry Hinton, Coleridge, East Chesterton, King’s Hedges,"
"by the Labour Party, often as a safe seat. The city has good transport links with Nottingham, Hull and the smaller ancient market towns in Lincolnshire, such as Spalding, Market Rasen and Boston. Lincoln was a bellwether constituency from October 1974 to 2015, voting for the party which would form the government in each election. In 2017 Labour took the seat despite being the 2nd largest party nationwide. General Election 1939/40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and"
"to Charles Seaford who works for the New Economics Foundation. The couple have two children. Helen Goodman Helen Catherine Goodman (born 2 January 1958) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland since 2005. She was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Work and Pensions until 2010 with responsibility for child poverty and childcare. Goodman's mother was a Danish immigrant and her father was an architect. She grew up in Derbyshire and was educated at her village school and Lady Manners School, Bakewell, Derbyshire, which at the time"
"London. He was cremated in a humanist service at the City of London Cemetery on 7 November 2014. Michael Cashman Michael Maurice Cashman, Baron Cashman, (born 17 December 1950) is a British Labour politician and former actor. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency from 1999 until he stood down in 2014. He has since then been appointed to the House of Lords. On 23 September 2014, Cashman was appointed the Labour Party's special envoy on LGBT issues worldwide. A former child actor, Cashman had a long career principally on television in supporting roles."
"election to Westminster. He was elected to the House of Commons for Wycombe in Buckinghamshire at the 2001 general election following the retirement of Ray Whitney. Goodman held Wycombe with a majority of 3,168 and remained the MP there until the 2010 general election. He made his maiden speech on 27 June 2001, in which he recalled the former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli who had once contested his seat. In parliament he served on the Work and Pensions Select Committee 2001-5. He also served for a year as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chairman of the Conservative Party David"
"Bob Blackman Robert John Blackman (born 26 April 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has been a joint-secretary and an executive member of the 1922 Committee since May 2012 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow East since the 2010 general election. He was also the Greater London Assembly member for Brent & Harrow between 2004 and 2008. Blackman was born in Kensington on the 26 April 1956. He was state educated at Preston Manor High School, where he was Head Boy. He has subsequently served as a school governor at the"